vrcanaries Chapter 106: The dawn of success in Yanzhou's fight against the epidemic has emerged
Chapter 106: The dawn of success in Yanzhou's fight against the epidemic has emerged
By daybreak, the sanitation work in the blocked epidemic area was basically completed.
This was accomplished thanks to the efforts of the hundreds of soldiers who were sent in, but also the countless people in the epidemic area who took the initiative to help under the leadership of Lei Jie and others.
After the unified supply of food and water, the officials outside led the soldiers, yamen runners, and conscripted laborers and were very busy.
The people inside gradually calmed down.
Two meals a day, two steamed buns, a white flour cake and some vegetables and tofu for each person, are enough to fill their stomachs and they no longer have to worry about food.
More than a dozen large iron pots were set up, boiling water in them to supply drinking water to people in the epidemic areas.
The boiled medicine was also brought in bucket by bucket, and those with mild or severe symptoms were required to take it three times a day.
Masks were distributed to everyone, and people were strictly ordered to wear them. …
The idea of vaccinating healthy, uninfected people against smallpox was difficult for the public to accept.
Seeing that the people of Yanzhou were hiding like tigers and refusing to come forward, the Ghost Hand Poison Doctor got so angry that he glared at them with his triangular eyes and cursed at these fools!
King Qin Zhao Defang smiled indifferently, walked to the vaccination table, sat down, and unbuttoned his collar to reveal his shoulders.
"Come! I will be the first person to be vaccinated against smallpox."
The Ghost Hand Poison Doctor then stopped talking and shouted at the dozen medical officers beside him, "Watch out! Only pierce the skin and don't make it bleed!"
The ghost-handed poison doctor carefully cut a cross-shaped cut on the skin of Qin Wang Zhao Defang's arm, and rubbed a cotton swab dipped in cowpox liquid on the wound.
The Ghost Hand Poison Doctor thought to himself, this magical vaccination method taught by my master didn't specify the maximum dosage?
This is my nephew, so I'll give him more! Anyway, he is willing to test the medicine on himself this time, and he won't lock me up in Kunlongtan again.
Siyu reminded, "Ghost Hand, don't keep rubbing it. If you use too much, be careful that His Royal Highness the Prince of Qin won't be able to bear it!"
The Ghost Hand Poison Doctor was so frightened that he quickly pulled back the cotton swab, but he argued rudely and unreasonably, "I was afraid that these idiots couldn't see clearly, so I demonstrated it a few more times on my nephew."
Imperial Physicians Liu and Fang, who were leading a dozen medical officers, were almost amused by what they heard.
But no one dared to say a word in reply, because this ugly old man was the uncle of His Royal Highness Prince Qin, and also a well-known senior poison doctor known as the Ghost Hand in the martial arts world!
After His Royal Highness the Prince of Qin stood up, Cai Kun was the second one to sit down. He unbuttoned his collar to reveal his shoulders. He felt timid in his heart but spoke with a firm tone.
"After His Royal Highness the Prince of Qin, I am the second person to be vaccinated against smallpox!"
The ghost-handed poison doctor made a cross-shaped cut on his skin and applied the medicine with a cotton swab.
: "Okay! Next one."
Cai Kun quickly pulled up his collar as if he had been pardoned.
I thought that even if cowpox was a poison, the amount of poison I was poisoned with was several times less than that of His Royal Highness the Prince of Qin, so I shouldn't be poisoned to death, right?
Other officials also stepped forward and took the lead in getting vaccinated with this vaccine, whose effectiveness was unknown.
The Ghost Hand Poison Doctor had enough fun and stepped aside to give instructions. Siyu and the imperial physician led the medical officers to vaccinate the people behind.
His Royal Highness the Prince of Qin took the lead in getting vaccinated with cowpox, and those high-ranking officials who were usually terrified of death also got vaccinated. This should be a really good thing for preventing and treating smallpox epidemics.
The onlookers all joined the long queue enthusiastically.
After receiving the vaccination, everyone ran back home immediately, notified their families and neighbors, and urged them to rush over to get this life-saving miracle medicine!
Seeing that the vaccination here was going smoothly, Ghost Hand Poison Doctor and Siyu took a few medical officers to the blocked epidemic area to help people with vaccination.
The blockaded severely affected areas were in good order, and the role played by Lei Jie and others was equivalent to the forced suppression by several times more soldiers and runners.
At the end of the day, more than 300 people with severe infections died, more than double the number yesterday.
Cai Kun and others secretly breathed a sigh of relief, expressed great admiration for His Royal Highness the Prince of Qin, and were full of hope for the success of this anti-epidemic effort.
The people in Yanzhou city gradually calmed down, and nearly half of the shops in the city were open for business.
By the third day, the death rate of the infected had dropped to more than one hundred.
Along with this encouraging good news comes two other pieces of bad news.
The herbs used to treat the infected are running low.
However, the number of infected people outside the hardest-hit areas in the city was increasing, and even some officials, yamen runners and soldiers on the front line of the fight against the epidemic were infected with the plague.
The people sent by Qin Wang Zhao Defang to nearby prefectures to purchase medicinal herbs brought back very few, and among them, the most important medicinal herb, "Trichosanthes", was not bought at all.
Cai Kun and others knew very well that this was because of the raging smallpox epidemic in Yanzhou, and the surrounding provincial governments were hoarding medicinal materials, waiting for the epidemic to spread to other places and keep them for self-help.
Radix Trichosanthis, also known as Trichosanthis root, is the root of a plant in the Cucurbitaceae family. When there was no smallpox epidemic, no one would plant much of it.
After a moment's hesitation, the Ghost Hand Poison Doctor suggested, "Use Cimicifuga and Pueraria root instead!"
The Cimicifuga and Pueraria root in Yanzhou City had long been used up, so King Qin Zhao Defang ordered to immediately go to the surrounding prefectures to purchase and transfer them.
People who were going to buy medicinal herbs were sent out quickly, but no one knew how much could be bought back.
In the evening, the people sent out to buy medicinal herbs had not returned yet, but ten horse-drawn carriages carrying medicinal herbs arrived outside the city.
Yun Yi hurried over and happily reported to the King of Qin, "Your Majesty, it was the princess who sent someone to deliver the urgently needed medicinal materials."
The medicinal herbs sent by the princess? It's really timely rain! Qin Wang Zhao Defang looked towards the direction of the capital, his handsome eyes full of tenderness and pride.
With the urgently needed medicinal materials, people feel relieved!
The prefect Cai Kun was thinking secretly in his heart!
Didn't colleagues in the capital say that the princess married by His Royal Highness the Prince of Qin was a fool with a brain disease? How could they have foreseen the future and sent people to deliver these life-saving herbs?
Maybe this was something His Royal Highness the Prince of Qin instructed before he left?
With these urgently needed medicinal materials, Yanzhou officials saw hope for success in fighting the epidemic. They were so excited that they worked day and night.
Siyu was so busy that blisters appeared on the corners of her mouth, and the Ghost Hand Poison Doctor was also so busy that he had no time to rest.
The imperial physicians and medical officers saw that the hope of successfully fighting the epidemic was growing, and they were so excited that they wanted to use all their strength.
If Yanzhou succeeds in fighting the epidemic this time, not only will their lives be safe, but it will also be a great achievement! They can wait to be rewarded by the emperor after returning to Beijing! ...
Siyu brought the little girl named Feng'er whom she met on the first day to the table and handed her a pancake with meat in it.
: "Feng'er, eat quickly!"
Feng Er's smiling face was as bright as a blooming flower: "Thank you, Sister Siyu!"
This fairy-like sister not only saved her mother, but also loved and cared for her like her own sister.
This kind of meat pie, which only medical officers can eat, she can only eat twice during the Chinese New Year. But these few days, she has been living a Chinese New Year life every day.
Feng'er's mother was still too weak to walk. Lying on the earthen kang at home, she looked at her little daughter's smiling face and Miss Siyu's back, her eyes filled with gratitude.
The people brought by the wise and brave Eighth Wise King who loved the people like his own children were all good people who treated the lowly people as human beings.
Lei Jie led a team of people to visit every household to ask if anyone had any difficulties and needed help.
Their team has grown to thousands of people, all of whom are ordinary people who have joined voluntarily.
There are also some young women in the team, whose families are no longer as reluctant as they used to be to let them show up in public.
Everyone in these teams is full of energy and they have maintained order in the blocked disaster areas.
In the blockaded disaster-stricken areas, the wailing and crying are becoming less and less, and there are more and more smiles on people's faces.
Many people even hope that after this epidemic is over, it would be great if life could be like this every day.
The death rate in the hardest-hit areas has dropped to more than a dozen people per day, and there is hope for Yanzhou's success in fighting the epidemic.
Three days later, when there were only a few carts of medicinal herbs left, the princess sent another ten carts of urgently needed medicinal herbs.